The Armenian Genocide

History is a phenomenon that has the propensity to repeat itself. Genocides have been committed throughout history, even before the term was assembled in 1944 and accepted by the United Nations in 1946 as a crime under international law. According to the United Nations, genocide is defined as “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” A minimum of twenty-seven genocides have been documented across the world. During the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide and the Ukrainian genocide (Holodomor) transpired. Currently, in the 21st century, the world is witnessing another brutal genocide occurring in Myanmar. A kindred pattern of events is perceived throughout the duration of genocides along with

The Armenian massacres of the 1890 's are an important marker in the history of humanitarian aid by the United States. Before this point, American humanitarian aid had been up to small committee efforts thrown together for an individual international crisis. During the 1890 's humanitarian reformers became more organized and elected officials began to look at the role the United States federal government could play in international humanitarian aid. (Wilson 27) At this time Protestant missionaries and Armenian nationals joined forces with former abolitionists, woman suffragists, and newspapermen to bring the condition of the Armenians to the attention of the citizens of the United States.

Between the years of 1915 and 1918 the Ottoman Empire, under the Young Turks began a deliberate program of removing and exterminating the Armenian population; a population already dismantled through previous massacres. The Armenians were a minority in both population and religion. Because most Armenians were Christians, they were made an easy scapegoat in an empire that was mostly Islamic. With the world’s eyes on the First World War, the Armenian Genocide went mostly unnoticed and there were no punishments such as ones received by Germany after the Holocaust. The United States has deliberately avoided the recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in order to maintain an ally in the Middle East and to avoid American genocidal policies,

There were many reasons that could be tied to why the Armenian Genocide happened, but there is no reason bigger than the fact that the Turkish Government was unsatisfied with the religious state of the Armenians. The Armenians had established their national religion as Christianity unlike Turkey who was mostly Muslim. The main group that enforced this was called the Young Turks. The Young Turks were a group that had taken control of Turkey. According to the United Human Rights Council, “[The Turkish Government] exploited the religious, cultural, economic and political differences between Turks and Armenians so that the average Turk came to regard Armenians as strangers among them.” It started with the Armenians

The Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against its minority Armenian population from 1915-1917 left an estimated 1.5 million dead and to date, not one individual has been tried for these egregious crimes. The mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in World War I and Jews by the Nazis in World War II shocked the conscience of the international community and led to the creation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), in order to hold the perpetrators of crimes of this magnitude accountable. In its preamble, the UN charter sets the objective to "establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained". The genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire and Nazis made it clear that an international standard must be set in order to protect the rights of individuals. The UN has attempted to establish international law with the creation of the CPPCG and other resolutions, however, these resolutions are simply words on paper unless they are properly enforced. In this essay I will be examining whether the United Nations have been successful in its enforcement international law, specifically the CPPCG.

Nevertheless, the Kurds believe that the threat of intolerant Shiite Arabs coming into power requires a formidable response to ensure their security (Source C). Even though the foreign affairs pose a threat to the Kurds,

The Armenian genocide has several main causes: European meddling in Ottoman internal affairs, nationalism, economic jealousy, and Armenian involvement in the Russian war effort. Though, a lot of the causes are interrelated. For example, nationalism and European meddling go hand in hand. What exactly was the Armenian genocide? Well, the Armenian genocide was a state orchestrated machine of mass-murder and rape of the Armenian people, and several other ethnic groups, of the Ottoman Empire 1915-1923. The Armenians were one of many ethnic groups of the Ottoman Empire, and they had lived in eastern Asia Minor for around three thousand years prior to the atrocity .

At that time big countries and empires faced difficulties due to the difference in religious affiliations and ethnic ideologies. The writing also went back to the future to examine what has happened many years after the exercise. There is still tension in relations between Turkey and Greece, which continued to soften in what seemed a very slow but sure process. The most vital part of the book is the one that helps to understand the effects that ethnic cleansing has had to date. It not only affected the survivors, but also their offspring and the future generations. the book made me enriched me academically, but it also allowed me to delve deeper into the emotion and the pain of the

Background: In order to fully understand the Armenian experience in Turkey as natives and then as minorities, it is crucial to discuss the historical background before the genocide, within the genocide, and after the genocide. In the pre-genocidal period, Armenians were living under the Millet system, which is the Arabic word for nation. In fact, the Millet system didn’t refer to an ethic group but to a religious community instead. Although under the millet system Armenians were subordinated and paid additional taxes, they were protected under the Islamic Law. However, since the beginning of the persecution of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, the phenomenon of migration had taken a dramatical turn. Natives had to leave

This paper will critically analyze the idea of culture identity genocide through the case study of Turkish state violence against Kurdish identity post 1980. This identity assimilation, or cultural assassination, is examined through the repressive political strategies and implementations brought about by the enactment of Turkish Martial Law in 1980. This Emergency Legislation gave rise to organized Turkish state security forces and repeated violations of international human rights law.

The crisis in Ukraine and Crimea’s recent accession to Russia are events that clearly highlight the underlying sources of conflict in global politics. While Russia sees its actions in Crimea as a “reunification” and the respect for the right of self-determination, the West views it as a threat to European security and a violation of territorial integrity. Crimea has been a debatable topic from the time it came under the control of the Russian Empire in 1783 during the reign of Catherine the Great. The justification then was similar to the reasoning being used by Vladimir Putin today. Catherine declared that she was protecting ethnic Russians in the region from the Ottoman Empire, much as Putin is claiming to protect Russians from Ukrainian

University did not articulate any references to Azeri nationalism in their slogans. Obviously, the Azeri community is more likely to play a role in determining the future direction of Iran’s political evolution than in igniting an ethnically-based separatist movement. Having proven its centuries-long loyalty to the Iranian state and territorial integrity, Azeris are also likely to work within the current political system to address their grievances. Although the emergence of the independent Republic of Azerbaijan has been a source of Azeri ethnic pride, it has not generated popular support from the Iranian Azeri community to join Azerbaijan. While many Azeris admit to maintaining cultural bonds with their brethren in the Republic of Azerbaijan, such ties do not translate into aspirations to separate from a state in which they already exercise tremendous influence, with many of them occupying high-level government positions.

Those Armenians who survived the genocide of 1915 were forced to exile their Homeland in the Ottoman Empire in order to survive. Behind them they left their culture; castles, towns, villages, churches, thousands of manuscripts and cultural secrets and data were destroyed. This effectively stripped the Armenians of their rich heritage left from ancestors. Within years, an entire culture, it’s people and its all histories were virtually erased. Today, Armenians are dispersed throughout the Middle East and the United States, with only about 1 million of the estimated 9 million actually living in Armenia. This diaspora of the Armenians, living scattered across the world, has created a struggle to hold on to their Armenian identity.

Kurdistan is a region located between Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. The Kurds are the biggest ethnicity on the planet without a state to this day. This paper will focus on the Iraqi part of Kurdistan, for it has come the closest to a state-like notion as per Weber’s definition. Iraqi Kurdistan is a region characterized by many diplomatic issues due to lack of acceptance as a state. The region was established through an autonomy agreement with Iraqi government in 1970 after decades of disputes between the Iraqi government and the Kurds in the north. The region had already established a government, but it lacked many characteristics that are applicable to a state. The constant conflict with the Iraqi government has been ongoing since the

National Identity is the feeling of a nation as an adhesive whole, each nation is represented by a distctive set of traditions,culture, language and politics. One’s national identity is the sense of belonging to a state or nation, this feeling is shared by a group of people, regardless of legal status of citizenships status. the situation of Rakhine State is one of a pernicious mixture of historical centre- periphery tensions, serious inter communal and inter-religious conflict with minority Muslim communities as well as extreme poverty and under development. This has lead to major violence highlighted in 2012 with further sporadic outbreaks.